Wow, tv has been bad this week! Not bad enough to stop watching, but so much gloom and doom.. including tonight's Late Late Show, which normally forms the backbone of my Friday nights in Ireland. (Whee!) A couple of decent items were completely overwhelmed by interviews with participants on RTÉ's fitness programme, Operation Transformation, (yuck!) and an interview with Barry McGuigan about his deceased daughter. Oh, what a downer! With nothing else decent on, we went to bed early, and I was free to return to Amazon Prime for Good Omens.
It's a rather excellent sci-fi comedy about the end of the world. Somebody has triggered Armageddon, and it's up to an angel (Michael Sheen) and a demon (David Tennant) to stop it. Frances McDormand is God, who narrates, Miranda Richardson plays the hapless medium who represents the first recorded case of angelic possession. Bill Paterson shows up in this one, as the head of the local neighbourhood watch. Based on a book co-written by Terry Pratchett, it's quite clever - and I do love that the Antichrist is a small boy.
They spend the first half of this episode reprising snippets of the last 6,000-odd years since the world apparently actually began, and the relationship between our favourite angel and demon. And then it's back to the mayhem of a small English village, where the Antichrist is, it seems, becoming powerful enough to influence the world around him. Another excellent episode - the flashbacks work perfectly well if you haven't seen the previous episodes, but for the present day, it does help to know who's involved. And the hellhound gets a starring role.. Again, highly recommended - can't wait to get back to the rest of this series, I'm starved for something decent to watch!
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